Obama's beer wager settled

March 13, 2010|By Colby Itkowitz | CALL WASHINGTON BUREAU

WASHINGTON — In the end the White House will send Canada both nation's brews.

After President Barack Obama lost a bet with the Canadian prime minister over the men's ice hockey Olympic gold-medal game, he owed his northern counterpart a case of beer. But there was some confusion whether Obama was to send Stephen Harper Canadian or American suds.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs cleared that up Friday by announcing to the White House press corps Obama will send two cases of beer.

''We've instructedÃÂÃÂ our ambassador to make arrangements to deliver one case of Molson Canadian and one case of Yuengling lager from Pottsville, Pennsylvania, America's oldest brewery, to the prime minister's office today,'' Gibbs said.